Elliptic curves and canonical subgroups of formal groups.
We prove irreducibility of the scheme of morphisms, of degree large enough, from a smooth elliptic curve to spinor varieties. We give an explicit bound on the degree.
We construct isotrivial and non-isotrivial elliptic curves over with an arbitrarily large set of separable integral points. As an application of this construction, we prove that there are isotrivial log-general type varieties over with a Zariski dense set of separable integral points. This provides a counterexample to a natural translation of the Lang-Vojta conjecture to the function field setting. We also show that our main result provides examples of elliptic curves with an explicit and arbitrarily...
We consider the stabilization of Maxwell's equations with space variable coefficients in a bounded region with a smooth boundary, subject to dissipative boundary conditions of memory type on the boundary. Under suitable conditions on the domain and on the permeability and permittivity coefficients, we prove the exponential/polynomial decay of the energy. Our result is mainly based on the use of the multipliers method and the introduction of a suitable Lyapounov functional.